Series: Modern Slovak Classics

A dissident's deeply personal and unflinching view of Soviet oppression in Czechoslovakia in the wake of the 1968 invasion. Seven Days to the Funeral is the fictionalised memoir of Ján Rozner, a leading Slovak journalist, critic, dramaturg, and translator. Rozner and his wife, Zora Jesenská, were champions of the Prague Spring and were blacklisted after the Soviet-led invasion of Czechoslovakia...

An English translation of Slovak Jewish writer Leopold Lahola's collection of short stories that face the atrocities and paradoxes of World War II. Slovak Jewish writer Leopold Lahola was able to escape deportation to a concentration camp and fight in the resistance, only to find himself forced into exile by the postwar communist regime. He emerged from obscurity during the...

With their courageous and engaging critique of Communism in the 1950s, these critically acclaimed Slovak classics demask one of the founding myths of modern Slovakia. The Hours and the Minutes was first published in Bratislava in 1956, the year of Nikita Khrushchev's "secret speech," in which the Soviet leader formally acknowledged Stalin's tyranny and opened the way for political reform...